The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP is yet in another messy crisis in Oyo State as the only senator produced by the party in 2011 and 2015, Senator Hosea Ayoola Agboola resigned his membership of the party effective Wednesday.
Senator Agboola resigned following one sided reconciliation of the National Working Committee of the party with the Rashidi Ladoja faction of the party.
The Deputy National of the party, Elder Yemi Akinwonmi; the Zonal Chairman, Dr. Eddy Olafeso; Lagos State PDP Chairman, Hon. Moshood Adegoke Salvador; Rev. Bunmi Jenyo, Zonal Secretary (South West); and Arewa Nike, Ex-Officio (South West), had stormed Ladoja’s Bodija, Ibadan residence to assuage the feeling of the former governor over the “much-reported harmonization of the PDP state executiveâ€.
BONE OF CONTENTION:
Senator Hosea Agboola, who was in the forefront of those clamouring for the harmonization of the executive, appeared worried over the “Tuesday’s homage paid†to Ladoja by the party’s hierarchy.
According to him: “With this visit, the party has finally handed the fate of Oyo PDP in Ladoja’s hand.
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Here is somebody whose leadership style will finally sink the boat of the party. Why do they think we were praying for harmonization? It is basically to give room for true reconciliation of all factions, following the parallel Congress of last year. And before now, we have made it clear that anything short of true reconciliation, we won’t welcome it.
“I am taken aback by such visit which was largely once sided. And it has shown us that the party does not want the PDP to win this state in 2019. The National Working Committee should count some of us out on this latest development which would certainly boomerang in the loss of the coming election.
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“For the party to now say that somebody whose anti-party activities are legendary should be the alfa and omega of the party we all toiled to grow to this level, it leaves a sour taste in the mouth.
Here was Ladoja who in 2007, sponsored a candidate in All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP) against the PDP gubernatorial candidate which the PDP won. Again in 2011, he left PDP to join Accord and contested but lost.
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